This
card was sent to me by Dieter
during his cycling trip along the River Main (shown on the card). The area is
popularly refered to as Franconia (Franken), which is a region for
quality wine in Germany situated in the north west of Bavaria in
the district of Franconia, and is the only wine region in the federal
state of Bavaria. In 2008, vines were grown on 6,063 hectares (14,980 acres) of
land in the region.
The
greatest part of the wine region is situated in the county of Lower Franconia
around its capital Würzburg along the Main River. There are a
few areas in Middle Franconia mainly in the Steigerwald and a very
small part in the area of Upper Franconia around Bamberg. The bends of
Main have been used to define the region's three districts, two of which take
their names from their respective geometric shape.